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  2. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    de – "the" 's – "of the"; contraction of des, genitive case of the definite article de.Example: 's Gravesande. 't – "the"; contraction of the neuter definite article het.

  3. Mama and papa - Wikipedia

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    Mama and papa use speech sounds that are among the easiest to produce: bilabial consonants like /m/, /p/, and /b/, and the open vowel /a/.They are, therefore, often among the first word-like sounds made by babbling babies (babble words), and parents tend to associate the first sound babies make with themselves and to employ them subsequently as part of their baby-talk lexicon.

  4. Eastern Slavic naming customs - Wikipedia

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    The patronymic is formed by a combination of the father's name and suffixes. The suffix is -ович (-ovich) for a son, -овна (-ovna) – for a daughter. For example, if the father's name was Иван (Ivan), the patronymic will be Иванович (Ivanovich) for a son and Ивановна (Ivanovna) for a daughter.

  5. Vietnamese name - Wikipedia

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    A baby born in Vietnam can only have one foreign name. If the father is foreigner, the foreign name can only be the family name. Examples: If the foreign father is named John Smith, the son can be named Smith Quang Hải. If the Vietnamese father is named Nguyễn Quang Hải, the son can be named Nguyễn Quang John.

  6. Nationality - Wikipedia

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    This might occur, for example, if a person's parents are nationals of separate countries, and the mother's country claims all offspring of the mother's as their own nationals, but the father's country claims all offspring of the father's. Nationality, with its historical origins in allegiance to a sovereign monarch, was seen originally as a ...

  7. Spanish naming customs - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, the first surname is the father's first surname, and the second is the mother's first surname. Since 1999, the order of the surnames in a family in Spain is decided when registering the first child, but the traditional order is nearly universally chosen (99.53% of the time).

  8. Nieces and nephews - Wikipedia

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    In the lineal kinship system used in the English-speaking world, a niece or nephew is a child of an individual's sibling or sibling-in-law.A niece is female and a nephew is male, and they would call their parents' siblings aunt or uncle.

  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Biography

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    Per the above guidance, we do not add ethnicity ("Jewish-American") or country of birth ("Russian-born American"). These details can be introduced in the second sentence if they are of defining importance. In cases of public or relevant dual citizenship, or a career that spans a subject's emigration, the use of the word and reduces ambiguity.